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DOUBLING has always been seen as a supernatural event. Doppelganger, a German vernacular word for 'doublewalker' refers to any double or identical looking person usually in the essence of an evil twin. In an ephemeral sense, doppelgangers can be a sensation of peripherally observing one's self without reflection. Any of these instances signifies bad fortune or act as omens of death. |
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DISMEMBERMENT is generally associated with decapitation or severing of an entity: one becomes more. The act is usually violent in nature and does not warrant a positive outcome. There are generally two consequences; the severed element gains autonomy and successfully becomes an entity along side the original or the original recesses into a shadow of its previous holistic state. |
The similarity between doubling and dismemberment is generally the increase of objects and their identity as objects. The difference is in the significance of the increase. Doubling multiplies an object: a creation, while dismemberment divides an object: a schism. |
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Periphery Doubling through Collective Dismemberment The Inner Conflicts Spawned by Doubling |
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The use of dismemberment and doubling are two common techniques to express character and plot development. The significance embodied within the two are interchangeable and very flexible as tools for generating complex relationships, narrative structures and significant hierarchies. Also both dismemberment and doubling represent an aspect of the uncanny because their execution usually implies some deviation from the status quo. Dismemberment deals with the antagonist separation of a single body. Doubling usually implies the creation of an other worldly replicant. |
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